So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

I thought petrol was horribly expensive and Trump will now make it cheaper.

The swamp draining starts again.

@Quantum Erasure Is this your first encounter with the changed 'Block Function'?

Even with been prevented from retweeting, loophole is you can copy the url and link to it anyway.

I got this reply today from 'Xitter' within around 24 hours of requesting it.

Your Twitter archive is ready for you to download and view using your desktop browser. Make sure you download it before Nov 15, 2024, 4:20:35 PM.

Not that I will be deactivating, don't want someone else to re use it. After the 29th I will probably just protect my account instead. Also want to test out feeding my followers.js to this Threads tool: -

https://www.xtothreads.com/ ~~ Newly created tool, so don't expect great results yet.

In the news today: -

I was plagued by them too for a while.

This worked for me without me knowing it would work for me.

Remove all pornbot 'followers', lock/protect your account, unlock your account.

Now I had mine locked for a while, maybe a couple of weeks as I don't tend to spend every day on any platform and lo and behold I haven't had a pornbot follow me since and that's been about 6 weeks.

You aren't really Irish unless he's blocked you. ;)

Hmm, literally just tried to sign up for Bluesky now and the signup page is in an infinite refresh loop so I can't actually type in my email. (on Chrome) Can't see the email field at all on Firefox.

@hoodie6029 Great exodus to BlueSky again now. Lots of Irish people joining now.

Using this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sky-follower-bridge/ look who I found that is on it now.

No posts on the platform, so don't know when he joined or if it is a legitimate account.

Edit: Clearsky reports the account was registered 10 Days ago.

Changing the ToS as well on the 15th, no choice but to allow your posts train Grok apparently. Massive intake of new accounts on Bluesky last couple of days - One great feature is the availability of lists to mass block/subscribe (loads of Irish pol or arts lists from X for example, and a lot of Nazi block lists)

Catturd lasted a couple of hours before being banned for making threats, so the moderation seems a lot lot better. No point staying on Xhitter now, it is unusable, and for some people probably unsafe. Seems to be morphing into Truth social / Gab / 4chan, there's no way space karen's megaphone is coming back. Once all the decent folk go, it will be nothing but Nazis and porn bots raging at each other

The Guardian will no longer be posting content on X

Fairly pathetic from the Guardian in fairness.

So a platform is promoting some right wing views therefore we wont engage with it.

Fair enough if that is what they want to do but it does prove what a bunch of crybabies lefties appear to be , they just can't stand their opinions being challenged so they run away to a safe space .

Surely if they truly believed what they were saying in their newspaper they'd stay as twitter would need more voices like theirs to challenge the views being pushed on twitter.

By putting their stuff on twitter, they'd be helping boost the platform.

Doesn't bother me at all.

I'll now be less likely to see the Guardians reporting though as I don't actively seek out their website I just see their stuff pop up on twitter from time to time, so essentially they've lost the ability to have any influence on me and anyone else who doesn't already subscribe to them.

Surely if you think what you believe is important you should be trying to change people's opinions and target people who don't already agree with you not deciding to go back to your own little echo chamber.Anyone who already subscribes to the guardian website already pretty much goes along with their stance on most things so by restricting themselves to just those people they are massively restricting their influence and the possibility of being an agent for change .

I'd also argue it's quite a poor business decisions, most newspapers I imagine use twitter accounts to get people to click on the link and see their ads or hopefully even subscribe to the online newspaper or buy it in the shops.

Because it still has users? It costs them nothing to post their articles so why would they turn down the free publicity it provides to the existing user base.